Tarantino gets $18 million tax credit for upcoming film about Manson murders

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Ray Downs

Director Quentin Tarantino attends the 73rd annual Golden Globe Awards at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills on January 10, 2016. On Monday, the California Film Commission gave the filmmaker a $18 million tax credit for his upcoming film. File Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI | License Photo

Director Quentin Tarantino participates in a hand & footprint ceremony immortalizing him in the forecourt of TCL Chinese Theatre in the Hollywood section of Los Angeles on January 5, 2016. Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI | License Photo

Actors Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell react to comments by filmmaker Quentin Tarantino during a double star unveiling ceremony honoring them with the 2,609th and 2,610th stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Los Angeles on May 4, 2017. Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI | License Photo

Nov. 20 (UPI) -- The California Film Commission announced Monday that Quentin Tarantino's upcoming film about the Manson Family murders will receive a tax credit of more than $18 million -- the largest of any tax credit awarded this year.

The announcement comes one day after Charles Manson, the ringleader of the cult that murdered five people in 1969 on which Tarantino's film is based, died of natural causes.

Tarantino's film, which is being referred to as Untitled #9, for his ninth film, was one of two big budget movies to get a tax credit by the state this year.

According to Variety, films with budgets of more than $75 million had a difficult time getting tax credits. But as productions have been increasingly moving out of state and having a negative impact on local production jobs, California officials have been making an effort to retain those productions, such as the tax credits handed out Monday.

"Despite aggressive incentives worldwide, California is once again competing for big projects because we're able to provide the best overall value," California Film Commission executive director Amy Lemisch said. "Films today can be shot just about anywhere, so it's great to see so much production returning to the Golden State."